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...Cabinet. One was William Phillips at the State department; the other was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge at the Treasury (see above). Last week President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination for a third Undersecretary-this time of Agriculture. Named for the job was young, handsome, curly-headed Rexford Guy Tugwell, topman of the Brain Trust...
Washington, April 24 (UP)--President Roosevelt today demonstrated his faith in Rexford Guy Tugwell, No. 1 Brain Truster--and according to Dr. William A. Wirt, master mind "Red Plotter" -- by advancing him to the new position of Undersecretary of Agriculture...
...Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been the one who broached the party's radical sentiments, quoting at great length from a three-year-old speech of Rexford Tugwell's to which, he said he apprehensively noticed, the others seemed to "nod approval." Most damaging direct quotation that Dr. Wirt could recall came from Miss Kneeland, Department of Agriculture subordinate: "Our group takes the leadership and recognizes the leadership of Dr. Tugwell [Assistant Secretary of Agriculture]." The Kerensky...
...such an indictment. Felix Frankfurter's "hot dogs," the youthful element which he has introduced into the Roosevelt circle, have been using the word "revolution" with careless abandon. Mr. Richberg in several of his speeches has said we are in the midst of one. People acquainted with debonair Rexford Tugwell, knee deep in ideas for economic planning, are not in the least sure that he does not consider Roosevelt another Kerensky. A high official in the administration feels that an attempt is being made to undermine our ideals so that the whole program can be put over...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is "one of the three or four men of real stature in the Cabinet." and fast-ripening Presidential timber. Observer thinks Rexford Guy Tugwell "a genuine conservative who would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there...